Radical Right in the Age of Trump 2.0
In their article for the
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Rosa Balfour, Stefan Lehne, and Elena Ventura suggest that the Trump effect on Europe’s radical right is more nuanced than is usually assumed. Rather than conquering Europe, the radical right seems set on preventing the EU from becoming what it needs to become. While the electorate of the radical right is more drawn to Trump in his second term than in his first, most Europeans continue to be skeptical of him, making radical-right parties cautious in their embrace of Trumpism. After all, the Trump administration’s outright anti-EU policies also affect radical-right electorates. However, the bloct could well be capable of obstructing and delaying reforms that are necessary to confront the EU’s current and future challenges.
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